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title: Some animals show they like you in small ways, like sitting on your… — The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets · tree and pragmatics
description: Some animals show they like you in small ways, like sitting on your things, rather than with big cuddles. Who acts: animals, small ways. A sentence of the lesson «The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets, sentence 29

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Some animals show they like you in small ways, like sitting on your things, rather than with big cuddles.

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**Who acts:** animals, small ways · **What happens:** show, like, sit · **To what, where:** you, small ways, things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The cat that only likes Dad, and other choosy pets» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animals, small ways), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets.lesson:29
# text = Some animals show they like you in small ways, like sitting on your things, rather than with big cuddles.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	21	cc	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	cuddles	cuddle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | some animals |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **like** | present | animals *= animal* | you |  | small ways |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme |
| 3 | **sit** | gerund | small ways *not said here* |  |  | your things |  | with big cuddles | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on thing=Location |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:457-the-cat-that-only-likes-dad-and-other-choosy-pets.lesson:29`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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